About Us

The Fayetteville Observer is a news organization based in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

In addition to an award-winning daily paper, The Fayetteville Observer has one of the area's busiest news websites, fayobserver.com.

The Fayetteville Observer is owned by Gannett and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in North Carolina.

The company was founded in 1816 as the Carolina Observer, becoming the Fayetteville Observer in 1883. Originally an afternoon paper, it began publishing a morning paper, The Fayetteville Times, in 1973. The two papers merged as a single morning paper, The Fayetteville Observer-Times, in 1990. It dropped ''Times'' from its masthead in 1999.